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	Engels Pleads Guilty Week [Peoria IL] April 18, 2005 A defrocked priest from the Peoria Catholic Diocese has pleaded guilty to criminal sexual abuse of a minor. 69-year old Francis Engels was in Milwaukee County Court on Friday. According to court records, Engels took a boy from Central Illinois to a hotel room in Milwaukee in 1983 and abused him. The victim is now 37 and settled a lawsuit against the Peoria Diocese earlier this month. Engels, who was removed from ministry in 1993, is free on $25,000 bail. He faces ten years behind bars at his June 3 sentencing.